Adventures and Events

We were very busy weekend last weekend. It all started Friday night. The breast cancer 3 day walk was this weekend and their base camp was right down the street from us. Women are a big target market for us and with this event right down the street we had MANY women concentrated in one location. So, Shannon and I went our “signing”. “Signing” is the act of putting little yard signs in various public locations so people can see them. This has taken us some time to get used to and we’ve realized it is a little easier (mentally) to do it at night under the cover of darkness. Living in Arizona makes it a bit more difficult to get the signs in the ground since most of the landscaping is rocks and the ground is hard as heck. After we stay out past bedtime putting signs out we come home and relax a few minutes before hitting the hay. On Saturday morning team College Hunks attended one of my favorite events, the Walk to Save Animals. This is a yearly 2k or 5k walk that you bring your dog(s) to which means there are dogs EVERYWHERE! As many of you know I am a major dog lover and treat my dogs as my children and being able to bring them to an event is quite exciting for me. Our favorite handyman Pat and Jeray joined us with their pack of dogs. We cut Jayden a special College Hunks Hauling Junk shirt which he wore with pride. Abby didn’t wear a shirt because well…she’s a princess and simply didn’t want to. Abby is very much like a cat in that she does what she wants when she wants and she didn’t want to wear a shirt…so she didn’t. After a fun and exciting pet walk we dropped the “kids” off and went out to eat with Pat, Jeray, and their friends from out of town. For dessert we got Aloha yogurt and boy oh boy was it yummy! Shannon and I are frequent Aloha yogurt visitors and like to bring our friends there for dessert so they can taste all of the awesomeness that Aloha has to offer. For those interested in trying it out it’s at Baseline and Mill in Tempe, I HIGHLY suggest it.

After the pet walk we had a few short hours to continue our “hunk hunt”. Due to a few different reasons we needed to hire 2 hunks over the weekend. This was quite a tough task simply because we had 2 days to post the job, interview, and hire 2 new employees all while we were busy with multiple events. To make a long story short we posted the job and had a large number of applicants flowing in all weekend. In our 2 hours in between the pet walk and Iron Girl setup we had to sift through multiple job inquiries and respond to those we deemed fit.

Next up was helping to setup the Iron Girl Tempe 5k/10mile event (held at the same location as the Walk to Save Animals). The ladies at the Iron Girl organization were so gracious to allow us to help setup their event in exchange for a vendor booth. This event has been going on for the last few years and I have run in the 10 mile race the past two years. It has been one of my favorite events because they take good care of the women running by providing a free breakfast afterwards and nice setup with multiple tables and flower arrangements…and everything is pink : ) So, we helped setup the 40 or so tables, tents, barricades, and whatever else they needed. We had a great time…it was a beautiful day and all of the people we were working with were very nice and happy to be there! After our setup duty was over we had to go to the party store to pick up a few items for our booth the following morning. Apparently, orange is not a popular color for tablecloths so we had to go to the party store to get one. For some reason only party stores seem to sell orange tablecloths…this we learned the hard way. Shannon and I somehow resisted buying many other items (beads, party favors, etc.) and made it out of Party City with exactly what we went for, orange tablecloths. We finally make it home for the evening and need to try and schedule interviews for Sunday…that was an adventure!

A 4:45am wakeup call came all too early on Sunday morning. Shannon and I took the early shift which meant we had to be at the Iron Girl race at 5:45am to start setting up our booth. This is this first time we’ve had a vendor booth at an event so we were kind of flying by the seat of our pants. Needless to say I think our booth turned out pretty good! We had a great time manning the booth and talking to all of the ladies that stopped by. We got many funny looks and comments which was fabulous! After we finished up at the Iron Girl race we headed off to do our “hunk” interviews. After the interviews and some deliberation we hired 2 new “hunks”.

It was a long, tiring weekend but we accomplished a lot and had a blast doing it all. I am so appreciative of the opportunity the Iron Girl organization gave us, thank you! Check out a few pictures below. To see the full photo gallery check us out on Facebook.

Jayden in his shirt

Our booth at the Iron Girl race

Our new hunks!